(Credit: ©Todd Rosenberg) The 2024-25 season of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana has been announced. Rosa Feola and Fabio Centanni will perform at the Teatro Argentina in a program of music by Piccinni, Rossini, Liszt, Ponchielli, and Pinsuti. Performance Date: April 10, 2025 “Falstaff, burattini e burle” based on Verdi’s work with dramaturgy by Anna Pedrazzini and Nadia Milani will be {…}
This season the Paris Opera is reviving “Rigoletto” in Claus Guth’s 2016 stark production. Verdi’s work is known for its memorable arias and melodies and is perhaps one of the most difficult works for baritone. It is also a gritty plot that has been reinterpreted in many different ways, sometimes revealing its darker layers. But in other instances, reinterpretations have {…}
The Arena di Verona has announced its 2025 season. Verdi’s “Nabucco” will get a new production. Stefano Poda will direct the new production. Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Youngjun Park, Luca Salsi, and Igor Golovatenko lead the cast that includes Anna Pirozzi, Maria José Siri, Anna Netrebko, and Olga Maslova as Abigaille, Francesco Meli and Galeano Salas as Ismaele. The cast is rounded out by Roberto {…}
(Credit: (c) Simon Weir) Opera Rara is set to stream its upcoming performance of Rosa Feola at Wigmore Hall on Nov. 2, 2024. The famed soprano will perform as part of the “Donizetti Song Project” alongside Carlo Rizzi at the piano and Sally Pryce on harp. The performance features songs by Donizetti as well as a modern-day premiere. Also on {…}
The International Opera Awards has revealed its 2024 awards. The awards ceremony is set to place at the Bayerische Staatsoper on Oct. 2, 2024.BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny will again host the awards ceremony. There will also be performances featuring opera stars and singers from the Bayerische Staatsoper Young Artists programme. Here is a rundown of all the categories: CONDUCTOR – Thomas {…}
The Teatro San Carlo has announced a new cast change for its production of “La Traviata.” The company said, “We inform our audience that, due to a sudden illness of Lisette Oropesa, the role of Violetta Valéry, for ‘La Traviata,’ on stage on July 24, 27 and 30, 2024 will be performed by Rosa Feola.” For her part, Oropesa took {…}
In 1924, Giacomo Puccini was indisputably the most renowned, successful, wealthy, and frequently performed living composer in the world. However, the maestro had a big vice: he was an avid smoker. This habit took its toll on him when, after visiting his doctor for a persistent cough and various respiratory issues, he received the devastating diagnosis of an inoperable throat {…}
(Credit: La Scala) The Teatro alla Scala is set to stream Puccini’s “Turandot” on July 4, 2024. The company is set to showcase the opera on La Scala TV in a new production by Davide Livermore which will showcase Franco Alfano’s ending. The opera is set to star Anna Netrebko, Raúl Giménez, Vitalij Kowaljow, Yusif Eyvazov, and Rosa Feola. Michele {…}
The Accademia Filarmonica Romana has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Damiana Mizzi and Marcos Madrigal perform in a program of works by Debussy, Poulenc, and Fauré. Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2024 Katarzyna Otczyk and Jakub Tchorzewski perform works by Chopin, Szymanowski, and Lutosławski. Performance Date: Oct. 27, 2024 Mauro Borgioni and Filippo Farinelli {…}
Rai Cultura is set to broadcast the Arena di Verona’s opening night concert “La Grande Opera Italiana Patrimonio dell’Umanità” on June 7. The concert is set to feature such artists as Anna Netrebko, Eleonora Buratto, Rosa Feola, Juliana Grigoryan, Jessica Pratt, Mariangela Sicilia, Aigul Akhmetshina, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Vittorio Grigòlo, Brian Jagde, Francesco Meli, Galeano Salas, Nicola Alaimo, Luca {…}
The Teatro San Carlo announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Dvořák’s “Rusalka” in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Dan Ettinger conducts a cast that includes Asmik Grigorian, Adam Smith, Ekaterina Gubanova, Anita Rachvelishvili, and Gábor Bretz. Performance Dates: Nov. 20-Dec. 7, 2024 Verdi’s “Don Carlo” will be conducted by Henrik Nánási and will star Piero Pretti, Gabriele Viviani, Ildar {…}